St. Louis Cardinals WiretapCardinals Sign LaRue To One-Year DealThe Cardinals signed backup catcher Jason LaRue to a one-year contract on Friday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. LaRue, who was one of six Cardinals to file for free agency, appeared in 61 games in 2008 and batted .213 with four homers and 21 RBIs. St. Louis Cardinals Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Cardinals To Target Furcal?The Cardinals are looking to improve their infielder while adding an impact bat and could target Dodgers' shortstop Rafael Furcal. Furcal hit .357 with five home runs and 16 RBI in just 36 regular season games because of injury in 2008. St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Mulder: 'I Wish I Could Have Pitched Better'
"It was a tough situation ... The whole time, all the way through the rehab and making those starts, I was not sure what I really had to get guys out," Mulder said. "Coming back, never once did I sit there and say, 'It?s back. I feel normal.' I never had things just click." Mulder went 22-18 in four years, having started just 53 games. "I would have given up anything to have done well in that city and with that team," Mulder said Wednesday. "I saw how it was. I saw why kind of teams we had there. It would have been so much fun, so incredible, to have been healthy and pitching like I?m capable. The last few years had nothing to do with the team or with the city. I wasn?t able to pitch for either of them. That?s disappointing." St. Louis Cardinals Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Cardinals Oct 2008 Archive
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